How to image an IDE disk with aimage and FreeBSD - Revision history

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Simsong: New page: =See Also= How To Set Up a Disk Imaging Station Category:HowTos

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=See Also=
[[How To Set Up a Disk Imaging Station]]
[[Category:HowTos]]

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-[[How To Ship Images]]
+[[How To Ship Drives]]
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 =See Also=
 [[How To Set Up a Disk Imaging Station]]
 [[How To Ship Images]]
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 # You should have a 50-pin IDE ribbon cable going from your IDE controller to the desktop;
 # Do not connect your imaging drive yet!
-# Boot the computer into FreeBSD;
+# Boot the computer into [[FreeBSD]];
 # Attach the IDE hard drive to the ribbon cable FIRST;
 # Now, attach power to the IDE drive;
 # You need to determine which ATA port the IDE drive is now connected to. In all likelihood it is <tt>ata0, ata1, ata2</tt> or <tt>ata3</tt>. If you have an internal hard drive on an IDE interface, then the internal interface is probably <tt>ata0</tt> and <tt>ata1</tt> and the external is probably on <tt>ata2</tt> or <tt>ata3</tt>;
-# You also need a place to store the AFF files you are going to be creating. I usually put them in <tt>/usr/affs</tt> which is a directory you will need to create;
+# You also need a place to store the [[AFF]] files you are going to be creating. I usually put them in <tt>/usr/affs</tt> which is a directory you will need to create;
 # Log in as ''root'';
 # mkdir /usr/affs
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 # If this doesn't work, try:
    aimage ata3 /usr/affs/disk1.aff
-# If it works, you'll see the aimage program running.
+# If it works, you'll see the [[aimage]] program running.
 =What can go wrong=
-* ''aimage'' may not be installed. If you get the error message "aimage: command not found" then you need to install [[AFFLIB]] and then make sure that the ''aimage'' command (usually installed in ''/usr/local/bin'') is in your ''PATH''. You can check this out by running ''/usr/local/bin/aimage'' instead of ''aimage'';
+* ''[[aimage]]'' may not be installed. If you get the error message "aimage: command not found" then you need to install [[AFFLIB]] and then make sure that the ''aimage'' command (usually installed in ''/usr/local/bin'') is in your ''PATH''. You can check this out by running ''/usr/local/bin/aimage'' instead of ''aimage'';
-* Your source drive can be broken, ''aimage'' should tell you this;
+* Your source drive can be broken, ''[[aimage]]'' should tell you this;
 * You can run out of disk space. You need a LOT of disk space to store disk images — figure 30GB to image a 60GB drive.

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 Here is a photo of my disk imaging system:
 [[Image:ImagingStationx4.jpg|320px|Photo of an open computer with 4 hard drives connected.]]
 Key elements of the disk imaging system:
-* You need to have an internal IDE card which is not used for anything but disk imaging.
+* You need to have an internal IDE card which is not used for anything but disk imaging;
-* You need to have an external hard drive power supply, so that you can power the IDE drives without using your computer's power supply. (If you use your computer's power supply, you can easily crash your computer when attaching or detaching the power supply.)
+* You need to have an external hard drive power supply, so that you can power the IDE drives without using your computer's power supply (if you use your computer's power supply, you can easily crash your computer when attaching or detaching the power supply);
 =Imaging Checklist=
-Here's how image
+# [[How To Set Up a Disk Imaging Station|Set up a disk imaging station]];
-# [[How To Set Up a Disk Imaging Station|Set up a disk imaging station]].
+# You should have a 50-pin IDE ribbon cable going from your IDE controller to the desktop;
-# You should have a 50-pin IDE ribbon cable going from your IDE controller to the desktop.
 # Do not connect your imaging drive yet!
-# Boot the computer in FreeBSD.
+# Boot the computer into FreeBSD;
-# Attach the IDE hard drive to the ribbon cable FIRST.
+# Attach the IDE hard drive to the ribbon cable FIRST;
-# Now, attach power to the IDE drive.
+# Now, attach power to the IDE drive;
-# You need to determine which ATA port the IDE drive is now connected to. In all likelihood it is <tt>ata0, ata1, ata2</tt> or <tt>ata3</tt>. If you have an internal hard drive on an IDE interface, then the internal interface is probably <tt>ata0</tt> and <tt>ata1</tt> and the external is probably on <tt>ata2</tt> or <tt>ata3</tt>.
+# You need to determine which ATA port the IDE drive is now connected to. In all likelihood it is <tt>ata0, ata1, ata2</tt> or <tt>ata3</tt>. If you have an internal hard drive on an IDE interface, then the internal interface is probably <tt>ata0</tt> and <tt>ata1</tt> and the external is probably on <tt>ata2</tt> or <tt>ata3</tt>;
-# You also need a place to store the AFF files you are going to be creating. I usually put them in <tt>/usr/affs</tt> which is a directory you will need to create.
+# You also need a place to store the AFF files you are going to be creating. I usually put them in <tt>/usr/affs</tt> which is a directory you will need to create;
-# Log in as root.
+# Log in as ''root'';
 # mkdir /usr/affs
 # Now, try to image the drive with this command:
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 =What can go wrong=
-* aimage may not be installed. If you get the error message "aimage: command not found" then you need to install AFFLIB and then make sure that the aimage command (usually installed in /usr/local/bin) is in your PATH. You can check this out by running "/usr/local/bin/aimage" instead of aimage.
+* ''aimage'' may not be installed. If you get the error message "aimage: command not found" then you need to install [[AFFLIB]] and then make sure that the ''aimage'' command (usually installed in ''/usr/local/bin'') is in your ''PATH''. You can check this out by running ''/usr/local/bin/aimage'' instead of ''aimage'';
-* Your source drive can be broken. aimage should tell you this.
+* Your source drive can be broken, ''aimage'' should tell you this;
-* You can run out of disk space. You need a LOT of disk space to store disk images --- figure 30GB to image a 60GB drive.
+* You can run out of disk space. You need a LOT of disk space to store disk images — figure 30GB to image a 60GB drive.
 =What to do after you have made your images=
-Once you have made a few images, you'll need to put them somewhere. Typically this means uploading them to a server somewhere.
+Once you have made a few images, you'll need to put them somewhere. Typically this means uploading them to a server.
 =See Also=
 [[How To Set Up a Disk Imaging Station]]
-[[Category:HowTos]]
+[[Category:Howtos]]

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 * You need to have an external hard drive power supply, so that you can power the IDE drives without using your computer's power supply. (If you use your computer's power supply, you can easily crash your computer when attaching or detaching the power supply.)
+=Imaging Checklist=
-Here's how to set it up:
+Here's how image
 # [[How To Set Up a Disk Imaging Station|Set up a disk imaging station]].
 # Do not connect your imaging drive yet!
 # Boot the computer in FreeBSD.
-# Attach the IDE hard drive
+# Attach the IDE hard drive to the ribbon cable FIRST.
 =See Also=
 [[How To Set Up a Disk Imaging Station]]
 [[Category:HowTos]]